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    The Oxford Handbook of the African American Slave Narrative

    The Oxford Handbook of the African American Slave Narrative by Ernest, John;

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    • Publisher OUP USA
    • Date of Publication 5 June 2020

    • ISBN 9780190677428
    • Binding Paperback
    • No. of pages490 pages
    • Size 170x244x25 mm
    • Weight 771 g
    • Language English
    • Illustrations 20 illus.
    • 270

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    Given the rise of new interdisciplinary and methodological approaches to African American and Black Atlantic studies, The Oxford Handbook of the African American Slave Narrative will offer a fresh, wide-ranging assessment of this major American literary genre.

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    Given the rise of new interdisciplinary and methodological approaches to African American and Black Atlantic studies, The Oxford Handbook of the African American Slave Narrative will offer a fresh, wide-ranging assessment of this major American literary genre. The volume will begin with articles that consider the fundamental concerns of gender, sexuality, community, and the Christian ethos of suffering and redemption that are central to any understanding of slave narratives. The chapters that follow will interrogate the various agendas behind the production of both pre- and post-Emancipation narratives and take up the various interpretive problems they pose. Strategic omissions and veiled gestures were often necessary in these life accounts as they revealed disturbing, too-painful truths, far beyond what white audiences were prepared to hear. While touching upon the familiar canonical autobiographies of Frederick Douglass and Harriet Jacobs, the Handbook will pay more attention to the under-studied narratives of Josiah Henson, Sojourner Truth, William Grimes, Henry Box Brown, and other often-overlooked accounts. In addition to the literary autobiographies of bondage, the volume will anatomize the powerful WPA recordings of interviews with former slaves during the late 1930s. With essays on the genre's imaginative afterlife, its final essays will chart the emergence and development of neoslave narratives, most notably in Styron's The Confessions of Nat Turner, Toni Morrisons's Beloved and Octavia Butler's provocative science fiction novel, Kindred. In short, the Handbook will provide a long-overdue assessment of the state of the genre and the vital scholarship that continues to grow around it, work that is offering some of the most provocative analysis emerging out of the literary studies discipline as a whole.

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    Table of Contents:

    The Oxford Handbook of the African American Slave Narrative
    Contents
    John Ernest, Introduction
    Historical Fractures
    1. Mitch Kachun. Slave Narratives and Historical Memory
    2. Eric Gardner. Slave Narratives and Archival Research
    3. Dickson Bruce. Slave Narratives and Historical Understanding
    4. Jeannine DeLombard. Slave Narratives and U.S. Legal History
    Layered Testimonies
    5. Marie Jenkins Schwartz. The WPA Narratives as Historical Sources
    6. Sharon Ann Musher. The Other Slave Narratives: the Works Progress Administration Interviews
    7. Elizabeth Regosin. Lost in the Archives: The Pension Bureau Files
    8. John Michael Vlach. The Witness of African American Folkways: The Landscape of Slave Narratives
    Textual Bindings
    9. Teresa Goddu. Slave Narratives as Texts
    10. Dwight McBride and Justin A. Joyce. Reading Communities: Slave Narratives and the Discursive Reader
    11. Kenneth Warren. Slave Narratives and American Literary Studies
    12. Marcus Wood. Slave Narratives and Visual Culture
    13. William Andrews. Post-Emancipation Slave Narratives
    Experience and Authority
    14. Aliyyah Abdur-Rahman. "This Horrible Exhibition": Sexuality in Slave Narratives
    15. DoVeanna Fulton. "There is Might in Each": Slave Narratives and Black Feminism
    16. Maurice O. Wallace. "I Rose a Freeman": Power, Property and the Performance of Manhood in Slave Narratives
    17. Brenda Stevenson. Beyond the Protagonist: Families and Communities in Slave Narratives
    18. Barbara McCaskill. Collaborative Slave Narratives
    Environments and Migrations
    19. Kimberly Smith. The Ecology of Slave Narratives
    20. Rhondda R. Thomas. Locating Slave Narratives
    21. Winfried Siemerling. Slave Narratives and Hemispheric Studies
    22. Nicole N. Aljoe. Caribbean Slave Narratives
    23. Helen Thomas. Slave Narratives and Transatlantic Literature
    Echoes and Traces
    24. Daphne Brooks. Slave Narratives and the Performance of Race and Freedom
    25. Joycelyn Moody. "The Truth of Slave Narratives": Slavery's Traces in Postmemory

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